Journals and Letters
10 best books like Journals and Letters (Fanny Burney): Selected Letters, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël, Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849, Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World, Letters from Russia, The Brontës: A Life in Letters, The Selected Letters, Sarah Churchill Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite, Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous, George Eliot: The Last Victorian
| Author | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné |
One of the world's greatest correspondents, Madame de Sevigne (1626-96) paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of France at the time of Louis XIV, in eloquent letters written throughout her life to family and friends. A significant figure in French society and literary circles, whose close friends...
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël
| Author | J. Christopher Herold |
| ISBN | 0802138373 |
J. Christopher Herold vigorously tells the story of the fierce Madame de Stael, revealing her courageous opposition to Napoleon, her whirlwind affairs with the great intellectuals of her day, and her idealistic rebellion against all that was cynical, tyrannical, and passionless. Germaine de Stael's...
| Author | Kenneth L. Holmes |
| ISBN | 0803272774 |
The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt...
| Author | Leo Damrosch |
| ISBN | 0300164998 |
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became...
| Author | Astolphe de Custine |
| ISBN | 0940322811 |
The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself,...
| Author | Juliet Barker |
| ISBN | 0879518383 |
Barker's selection of letters reveals the authentic voices of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, as well as their brother, Branwell, and father, Reverend Patrick Bronte. Charlotte was a letter-writer of supreme ability, ranging from facetious notes and intimate gossip to artfully composed pages of literary...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0307959309 |
This first publication of the letters of one of America’s most consistently admired writers is both an exciting and a significant literary event. Willa Cather, wanting to be judged on her work alone, clearly forbade the publication of her letters in her will. But now, more than sixty-five years after...
Sarah Churchill Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite
| Author | Ophelia Field |
| ISBN | 0312314663 |
A brilliant new biographer presents an unforgettable portrait of Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), the glamorous and controversial founder of the Spencer-Churchill dynasty that produced both Winston Churchill and Lady Diana Spencer.
Tied to Queen Anne by an...
| Author | Catherine M. Andronik |
| ISBN | 0805077839 |
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution
Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold.
In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through...
| Author | Kathryn Hughes |
| ISBN | 0815411219 |
Mary Ann Evans, aka George Eliot (1819-1880) achieved lasting renown with the novels Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Adam Bede. Her masterworks were written after years of living an unconventional life, including a scandalous voyage to Europe with the married writer and editor George Henry Lewes....
| Author | Dawn Powell |
| ISBN | 1883642086 |
I read this very very slowly, a few of her diary entries at a time. I don't think it would be digestible any other way. It's a diary, of course, so it's not always artful, it repeats itself and is sometimes terribly mundane. I wouldn't recommend it as a work of literature; For that, I would read Dawn Powell's...
| Author | Marie Corelli |
| ISBN | 1551114194 |
Though disparaged by literary critics of her day, Marie Corelli was one of the most popular novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Wormwood (1890) is a lurid tale of unrequited love, betrayal, vengeance, murder, suicide, and addiction. The novel recounts the degeneration of Gaston...
| Author | Charlotte Mosley |
| ISBN | 0395740150 |
Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, matched wits and exchanged insults in more than five hundred letters, a continuous irreverent dialogue that stretched for twenty-two years. Their delicious correspondence, much of it never published...
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922
| Author | Marina Tsvetaeva |
| ISBN | 0300069227 |
Take a very talented and spirited poet, and place her in Moscow between the years 1917 and 1922. What you have is Marina Tsvetaeva is Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922. Although the people of Moscow during this period suffered from near famine (Marina's youngest daughter was placed in a state...
رسائل جيرتروود بيل ١٨٩٩-١٩١٤: فلسطين - الأردن - سورية - وحائل
نبذة الناشر:
تعد مس بيل من أهم الشخصيات البريطانية التي ساهمت في صنع الخريطة السياسية والجغرافية لمنطقة الجزيرة العربية والعراق في القرن العشرين، من...
| Author | Claire Harman |
| ISBN | 0679446583 |
Claire Harman's full-scale biography of Fanny Burney, the first literary woman novelist and a true child of eighteenth-century England and the Enlightenment, is rich with insights and pleasures as it brings us into the extraordinary life (1752-1840) of the woman Virginia Woolf called ìthe mother...
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed...
| Author | Frances Milton Trollope |
| ISBN | 0140435611 |
When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was...
| Author | Jenny Uglow |
| ISBN | 0374232873 |
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed, passionate, and unusual in every way.
Sarah Losh is a lost Romantic genius—an antiquarian, an...
| Author | James Boswell |
| ISBN | 0300093012 |
In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal...
| Author | Edward Gibbon |
| ISBN | 0140432175 |
Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and remain an astonishing portrait of a rich, full life. Recounting Gibbon's...
| Author | Jerome K. Jerome |
| ISBN | 1845882172 |
While it is beyond doubt that Jerome K. Jerome is most well known for his comic masterpiece Three Men in a Boat, the range of his other literary achievements is staggering. Journalist, playwright and author, a wealth of his writing has remained just beyond the public gaze. Diary of a Pilgrimage is one...
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
| Author | Victoria Glendinning |
The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist...
| Author | Michael Hill |
| ISBN | 1451665288 |
The remarkable and inspiring story--told largely in his own words--of American diplomat Elihu Washburne, who heroically aided his countrymen and other nationals when Paris was devastated by war and revolution in 1870-1871. A former Congressman and friend of Presidents Lincoln and Grant, Elihu...
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0140436499 |
A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm
When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the...
